(06-16-2015, 12:52 PM)Aaron Wrote: But it didn't really hurt anything. That's the point I'm trying to get across.
Genesis rekt Sephiroths mind -> Sephiroth eventual goes to Shinra Manor to verify -> Sephiroth finds out that Genesis was right -> Sephiroth proceeds to destroy everything. -> Cloud stops him
And I'm postulating that it does hurt the story, because it takes away Sephiroth's agency and self-afflicted spiral into insanity in the search for the truth of his past. He didn't need Genesis to "rek" his mind - he had enough reason to question and seek answers on his own. The entire flashback scene in the original game is rife with him being horribly awkward with how normal people do things - even questioning why he knows so little about his own family. The seeds were already there without Genesis adding the fertilizer.
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(06-16-2015, 12:52 PM)Aaron Wrote: Seohiroth acted way different from Kefka IMO.
Also, I compare Sephiroth to Kefka in the vaguest of senses. Both are experimental super-soldiers (SOLDIER vs. Magitek) that end up going nutso and killing their superior (President ShinRa vs. Gestahl) before becoming the main villain of the story and seeking to destroy the world (Meteor vs. Warring Triad). Safer Sephiroth even seems to be taking the "angelic destroyer" angle from Kefka's final form.
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